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...Sodality's feasting debts stayed down during Prohibition, because, according to the minutes, they conscientiously drank ginger ale. The use of 100 proof ether instead of wine during the baptismal section of initiation also held the bills down, and knocked the neophytes...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: 150th Anniversary of Pierian Sodality | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

...Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at the point where a married doctor is pursuing his beautiful nurse, who in turn is in love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about to put him under the knife. The curtain rings down as the principals alternate a love duet with commercials for Lochinvar ("the soap of silken supremacy") and Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Ghosts & Soap | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...real business of yesterday was conducted sporadically on the edge of the field by a Doctor who divided his time between examining an astonishing number of injured players and squirting ether at a stray dog. The dog got away, but the injured included all but two or three of the varsity's first team...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Injuries Leave Crimson Soccer Lineup in Doubt | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

...rumors of Negro violence two days later when a waitress was attacked by a man she did not even identify as a Negro. The next day after a nurse reported that a "burly Negro" had burst into St. Vincent's Hospital and gagged her with an ether-soaked rag. Again, radio and TV stations fanned the fever; a WSPD radio program called The People Speak even broadcast angry bleats from citizens who denounced the Blade for covering up a Negro crime wave. More than 1,500 women registered for judo courses at the U.S. Marine Corps station. Toledo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: To the Brink | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Legion of Decency, which evaluates only films,* the committees will be guided by the Pontifical Commission for Movies, Radio and Television. Vatican officials say the committees will screen news broadcasts, drama and other entertainment and "compel decent programs" by expressing "forcefully" to broadcasters the public's disapproval of "ether indecency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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